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June 4, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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Biden and Gun Control - June 3rd, Hour 1

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Let's call it summer.
It's June.
I know we're not quite there as far as officially being summer.
That's June 21st.
You'll learn a lot when your kids are in elementary school, exactly.
Those key dates that you otherwise would have forgotten.
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And also, I am a politics and media columnist for The Hill.
And sometimes I fill in on great radio shows like this.
So when Sean calls, I say, sign me up.
Here we are.
And as usual, you look at what's called the rundown, right?
That's like the menu, the things we're going to talk about.
And I'm not going to be able to get to everything today.
Like Rush used to say, like a whole stack of papers and it gets to like one tenth of them.
But we have to start with the president's address last night, where he talked about anti-gun measures, says the Second Amendment is not absolute, says that there is an utmost sense of urgency around passing assault weapon bans and raising the age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 right away.
It's got to be done.
There is no time to waste.
And then right after that speech, he walked out to Marine One and went to Delaware.
I mean, you know, I'm reading the story in the Hill about it.
It says, you know, the president will lay up all these measures before flying out to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware for a long weekend.
I don't know.
I'm old enough to remember last weekend, and I am certain that was a long weekend because that was Memorial Day.
So what?
This president needs two three-day weekends.
I mean, the guy works 24-7.
You know, we're talking 24 hours a week, seven months a year.
That's what we get out of this president, the work ethic.
You know what?
If you get everything wrong, and I at least say, but the guy worked hard, he tried, you know, you get a gold star.
You get the F, but you still get the gold star for effort, right?
I mean, what do you need a three-day weekend for now when you consider everything that's going on in this country?
At least act like you're working and stay back at the White House instead of going to Delaware for the eight millionth time since you've been president.
And at least Trump, you know, hey, he go down to Mar-a-Lago, he go up to Jersey, right, to his golf club out there, but the guy worked all weekend.
Golfed once in a while.
Good.
You got to blow off some steam.
But I mean, really?
A sense of urgency around gun control and then you run off to Delaware for another three-day weekend.
President will be 80 this year in a related story, by the way.
That will be in November.
But again, if I were president, I'd like to think that, you know, I was had to talk to some younger folks in the business, young adults.
And one said, what's the best piece of advice that you could give me right now?
And the kid probably was, I don't know, 23 years old, just out of college.
I said, never let the other guy or gal outwork you.
Never have that regret that, you know what?
Maybe you're more talented, but the other person showed more of an effort.
Never, in other words, that's in your hands, right?
It's like when you play sports.
You know, you might miss every shot, but you should always, always play good defense.
That should never take a day off because maybe your shot's off, but you always play good defense.
In other words, you give the best effort that you possibly can.
And we simply do not get this out of this president.
And when you consider that inflation was 1.4% when the last guy left office named Trump, right?
1.4.
And what's that now?
8.3.
I'm not very good at math, but I'm pretty sure that's six times higher.
All right.
That would say, you know what, maybe it's not time for a long weekend.
When I look at gas prices, and they are now officially up nationally, exactly 100% higher than when this president took office.
I know this.
I'm looking at my receipt right now.
Got my car stolen last year.
You probably heard this story, but it bears repeating, right?
Right out of my driveway.
You bastards.
I'll find you eventually.
But still, they took it right out, right?
They totaled it in Newark.
I guess they tried to get on a boat.
They couldn't.
So they just crashed the thing.
So now I have the backup car, which was my old old car that I was about to get rid of before the other one got stolen.
The other one's a lease.
And in my nice 2006 Acura TL, I got 5.4 gallons of gas according to my receipt here.
And you know what?
You know how much that cost?
$78.
How is that possible?
I mean, come on.
I can't get my head around this.
I'm sorry, not 5.4.
Excuse me.
It's 15.4, but you get the point.
You get the point.
I mean, it's insane what we're paying now at this point as far as, you know, the one got faded.
I'm like, that can't be right.
5.4 gallons.
15.4 gallons, right?
Filled up the thing, 78 bucks.
So if people are paying that amount for gas, I think I would have a sense of urgency around that, right?
And then you see crime.
Murders last year at a 25-year high.
25 years.
16 cities all reported homicide records.
You'll never guess what those 16 cities have in common.
All right.
Thinking about it?
All right.
Time's up.
They're all run by Democrats.
16 cities.
So we have a country that's more expensive to live in.
We got a country that's less safe to live in.
Right.
And if you want to drive somewhere, I mean, God forbid, again, what we're paying for gas is insane to get the food that costs more money as well.
And then obviously everything that's going on at the border, which, you know, we're going to talk to some very capable folks about that later in the show.
John Solomon coming up later this hour, by the way.
So just keep that in mind that John Solomon is my old boss.
But now I don't work for him anymore.
So I can really tell him what I think about him.
But no, John's a great investigative reporter, and I want to pick his brain as far as all things Washington.
And obviously, Mark Morgan will be coming up in the four o'clock hour.
He used to run CBP, Custom Border Protection, and then the Great Mike Huckabee in the five o'clock hour.
That's Eastern, by the way.
So we probably should be noting that because a lot of you are listening in other parts that aren't in the elite East.
But let's get back to the president, right?
Here he is laying out his anti-gun measures and saying somehow the Second Amendment is not absolute.
Founding fathers calling on wine one.
Let's go to cut one and go.
The Second Amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute.
We need to ban assault weapons in high capacity magazines.
And if we can't ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21.
Strengthen background checks.
Enact safe storage law and red flag laws.
Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers and liability.
Address the mental health crisis deepening the trauma of gun violence and as a consequence of that violence.
Enough.
Enough.
All right, stop it there for me.
My God.
The fact that the majority of the Senate Republicans, the whispering.
You see it again?
Wait, wait, wait.
He did it again.
It's the Amityville horror voice, right?
Enough.
Get out.
It's that whispering.
It's creepy.
Can't somebody, you know, because he's got enough handlers and advisors around, say, look, when you do the whisper thing, it won't lower the deficit by one dime.
When you do that, you just sound creepy.
There's no other way to put it.
It's distracting.
I don't know who thinks this is a good idea, but enough with the whispering.
Well, anyway, to pass all these gun control measures that the president is proposing, he would need 60 votes in the Senate because there's this thing called the filibuster and you need to get above that threshold.
Democrats now are declaring that that filibuster, which has been around forever, they will abolish, just like they were going to abolish it for so-called voting rights, which was a joke, by the way.
I mean, that's kind of funny, right?
That we were told that democracy was in peril if we didn't pass so-called voting rights, which really is just we will federalize elections, right?
We're going to take it from the states where they've always been, and we're going to make it a national thing.
And obviously, not a very good idea.
Thank God we have the most powerful general Washington who's not named Biden.
And I'm not talking about Piscapo, and I'm not talking about Pesci, and I'm not talking about Jonas.
I am talking about Joe Manchin.
He stopped that along with Kirsten Sinema.
And then in Georgia, lo and behold, just, I don't know, two weeks ago during their primaries, the voting doubled.
The voting doubled for that primary when you compare it to 2020.
It was up 168% when you compare it to 2018.
I mean, numbers through the roof.
So whenever you hear, we have to abolish the filibuster to save democracy.
Remember that little thing with the whole voting rights bill that never passed.
And we were told that Georgia was Jim Crow 2.0.
And if you support the Georgia voting law, then you're on the side of Bull Conner and Jefferson Davis and Boss Hogan, whoever else.
Okay.
Well, turns out it's actually very quite easy to vote in Georgia.
In fact, it's, I think as an adult, voting is the easiest thing you could probably do in this country.
You're given anywhere from like 11 to 17 to 24 days to do one thing, cast a ballot.
Or, God forbid, you go on the day of the election, you walk into a polling place, maybe you wait three, four minutes, and you're done.
And maybe in cities you wait a little bit longer.
Big deal.
All right?
Have you been to a mall?
You wait online there to pay for shoes.
You could wait 10 minutes to vote.
That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, so here's what Democrats are now saying.
This is Representative Jones of New York.
Cut two, go.
Enough of your thoughts and prayers.
Enough, enough.
You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today.
Well, two.
You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week, and you will not stop us there.
If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it.
If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it.
And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities.
Each and every day, we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence, whatever it takes.
These people are delusional.
I'm sorry, that's the only word that's coming to mind right now, delusional.
So if the Supreme Court stops you, then you're going to expand the Supreme Court.
Yeah, that ain't happening.
It's not happening.
And if you're going to blow up the filibuster, well, it would have happened already to pass Build Back Better, voting rights.
You don't have the votes to do it.
So why are you screaming about this stuff?
I mean, that's the thing.
What's the old saying?
This was Crowdhammer.
Charles used to say that conservatives think liberals are stupid and liberals think Republicans are evil.
And when they come to that conclusion, they let a motion completely take over and don't speak logically.
Oh, speaking of not speaking logically, let's play cut three, shall we?
The view.
This ain't the view you grew up with 20 years ago of Barbara Walters that had a little bit of gravitas to it.
Now it's gone completely off the rails because now they want to eliminate, well, many of you, I would imagine, are probably Republican slash conservative out there.
They want to eliminate you.
Cut three, go.
Get rid of these weapons of war and it's not going to happen with Republicans in power.
So I'm now with you, Joy.
Get rid of Republicans.
Get rid of the party.
The party has to stand now because it's the party of white supremacy.
It's the party of insurrectionists.
It's the party of massacres at this point.
It's the party that you just, you can't trust.
Personally, I'm sick.
I'm sick and tired of people making excuses.
It's one gun.
Get it off the market.
Three words.
Go to hell.
I'm talking to Sonny, primarily, Sonny Austin.
Okay, it's the party of white supremacists.
It's the party of insurrectionists.
It's the party of, you know what?
Get rid of Republicans.
What's your plan for that exactly, Sonny?
I'm curious because I can read polls and even polls that are skewed somewhat to be more favorable to Democrats.
You are looking at a red tsunami in November.
All right.
Not wave.
I'm going all the way.
Tsunami.
TS.
Think about it this way.
Barack Obama lost, let's see, 63 seats in 2010, and he was polling higher than Biden is now.
What do you think Biden's going to lose in a couple of months, given that the country is infinitely in worse shape now than it was 12 years ago when Obama lost 63?
You're looking at 60 to 70 seats.
And Republicans, amazingly, only have to flip five.
So bye-bye, Nancy Pelosi.
She gets retired.
The Senate, you got to flip one, net one, and then you control the Senate.
Get rid of Republicans?
No.
The power is only going to grow.
And then in 2024, you tell me, you tell me who's running on the Democratic side, including the president himself running on this record at this point that has any shot against any nominee.
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I keep saying the word great.
Stick around.
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Back with one of them.
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So much for democracy.
Looks like Joe is the new dictator.
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I mentioned before the whole whisper thing, and as many of you know, I'm a media analyst for Fox News and write media columns and political columns for The Hill.
And for the life of me, again, I don't understand the whisper thing.
And the president keeps doing it over and over again.
So I said, Linda, the great producer, Linda, during the break, but Linda, can you put together a montage of whispers and like ordering something McDonald's?
Boom, she's got it done in like a minute and a half.
I got my whole order.
So let's play the whisper montage, just so people know exactly what we're talking about here.
Go.
That America wasn't built by Wall Street.
They're not all bad folks on Wall Street.
I'm not suggesting that.
But they didn't build America.
It was built by the middle class.
And unions built the middle class.
You know, I notice when you all do that, everybody benefits.
Whether they belong to a union or not.
Whether they belong to a union or not.
Employers can't find workers.
I said, yeah, pay them more.
This is an employee's employee's bargaining chip now.
What's happening?
I got them.
$1.9 trillion relief so far.
They're going to be getting checks in the mail that are consequential this week for child care.
The bill on the environment.
Why would I not be for it?
Get vaccinated.
I mean, get out.
Just do anybody to help horror like eight and then just put Joe Biden in it.
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Welcome back, everybody.
Let's get to our first guest, who happens to be my former boss.
I don't think I was ever reprimanded once.
So it's going to be nothing but praise for John Solomon, who used to be with me at The Hill and now obviously has gone off like so many have, right?
Whether it be Substack, whether it be just creating your own publication like Punch Bowl News, right?
Here you have Mr. Solomon, who has JustTheNews.
Justthenews.com is your website.
And what I am told, insiders say things are going very, very well.
Johnny, how are you, my man?
It is good to talk to you.
I miss our daily conversations when we were together, but this should be a fun one today.
I think so, or maybe not so fun, because I kind of want to go into the Second Amendment and gun control.
And, you know, we've had 27 mass shootings at schools this year.
I mean, clearly, this is a crisis, but it seems like we got folks talking past each other, right?
You have on the left, as we just talked about, they want to talk about gun control.
And on the right, it's about mental illness and fortifying schools.
And there doesn't seem to be any middle ground on this, as there normally isn't.
So in terms of solutions, when you hear the president talk last night about taking away assault weapons and raising the age from 18 to 21, most mass shootings in schools are carried out by people under 21, if you look at the numbers.
But will this ever be solved or is it just a lather, rinse, repeat kind of moment that we're going through where after every horrible shooting like we saw down in Texas, both sides dig in and nothing really changes.
Well, here's an amazing fact.
And listen, every one of these school shootings should not happen.
We have the capability to prevent them.
We have tools.
We have solutions.
Some of them date back to 2007, which, by the way, is the largest school mass shooting in American history, the Virginia Tech shooting.
There was a blue ribbon bipartisan panel that developed a lot of smart ideas.
It's 15 years since they did their work.
Most of their recommendations still haven't been implemented.
What does that tell you?
People don't really want to solve the problem with the bipartisan solutions people devise.
They want to keep having a debate over the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment is pretty clear.
The government can't infringe, cannot, and under any circumstances, cannot infringe the right of an American to own a firearm.
That's been written into the Constitution for 246 years.
But here is the truth of the matter.
These mass shootings get enormous attention, and they should.
19 victims or 19 too many school children should never have died in Texas.
But so far in the first five months of this year, here's an amazing statistic.
There have been 971 shootings in the city of Chicago, which, by the way, has one of the biggest gun control laws in American, tightest gun control laws in all of America.
There were 50 people shot, nine killed just this weekend in Chicago.
Democrats don't want to have that conversation.
Why?
Because it isn't an assault weapon often being used there.
It's bad guys, not lawful people getting the guns.
So they ignore that.
We have a gun scourge in America, or I'm sorry, a violent scourge in America that isn't just a gun problem.
It is mental illness.
It is crime.
It is red flag warnings that get ignored.
That's not the debate we're having.
Joe Biden took his side.
The Republicans have their side.
And there's nobody talking about all the evidence in the middle that points to the problem.
Illegal guns in the hands of illegal people, not legal residents, but illegal people using them or people who don't have the right to own them and committing violence, telegraphing violence, having mental illness issues.
Those are the debates we could have that could solve a lot of the problem that we're suffering right now.
And we're talking to John Solomon and making too much sense right now, certainly, John.
I have two kids, as you know, and I have a boy in kindergarten.
I have a girl in second grade.
So obviously this shooting in Uvalde, I haven't, I'll be totally honest, it's very hard for me to watch any of the coverage because I'm sorry, I'm right there with his parents.
Like I couldn't imagine getting that call or being down there and not seeing the police act when they should have.
But I keep going back to the same thought that even if you somehow ban these so-called assault weapons, right, weapons of war, there are still more than 400 million guns owned in this country.
Now, do you want to be the police officer that has to go to somebody's house and take that back?
Because those aren't going anywhere.
And as you said, what's being sold illegally on the streets, as evidenced by Chicago, shows that you're right.
The bad guys will still get the guns no matter what.
And then the people who have to protect themselves are going to be in real trouble.
I'm just curious, that 2007 Blue Ribbon panel, what were some of those recommendations?
Because mine, I wrote a column for the Hill about this.
And it's pretty simple.
And I'm surprised that this isn't just completely supported from a bipartisan perspective.
And I think that the way you fortify schools, and people have said this before, you have one entrance in and out.
You stagger the school day so different grades go in at different, say, 15, 20 minute intervals, because you can't have 500 kids going through one entrance at once.
So let's say in my kids' school, for example, my kindergartner, his day starts at 9.30 a.m. and goes to 4, but my second grader starts at 9 and goes to 3.30.
And then the fifth grader starts at 8.30 and goes to 2.30, that sort of thing.
This way, they go through that one entrance and then sitting there at that entrance is a bulletproof glass area where a trained officer, whether it's ex-military, ex-police officer, or current police officers in town that could do their desk duty from the school because the technology allows.
You can work from anywhere.
I think while that doesn't solve every school shooting, right, because you can leave a door open somewhere else, which you have to execute perfectly on, or, you know, it doesn't protect kids in the playground, perhaps, but most of these things usually don't happen there.
I think that cuts down at least on like 90, 95% of these sort of shootings because the shooter is not going to get past that guard.
Plus the guard could have a button that locks every room the minute he sees someone suspicious coming towards him.
I don't know why that isn't something that, since we spend trillions in our budgets every year, why can't we spend billions towards that?
It doesn't solve the problem completely, but boy, it does a lot to help, doesn't it?
It sure does.
And listen, this is a fact that a lot of police chiefs and police officers that I've talked to told me.
The second a shooting begins in a school, the average police time before someone can be neutralized is 18 minutes.
Meaning if you're outside the building, it takes about 18 minutes when you take all the school shootings together.
That's the time it takes to actually neutralize someone after the police get on scene.
18 minutes is an eternity when someone is firing 20 or 30 rounds a second out of a fast-firing gun.
This can be solved by many different things, locking of the doors, having armed officers there, having maybe teachers.
Ohio this week, the Ohio Senate passed a law that passed a bill that seems to be on track to become law, that a teacher with 24 hours of intensive training can carry a gun in the school now to protect the school.
There are all sorts of ideas that can wipe out that 18-minute gap or prevent that 18-minute gap from being there.
If the doors are locked, if the armed officer can do it, but in Navalde, we had a lot of issues, right?
The doors were supposed to lock.
Apparently, they didn't.
At least one door didn't.
There was a school resource officer.
He wasn't there on the moment of the shooting.
And then, of course, the police had an eternity.
It looks like 77 minutes, maybe the total amount of time elapsed.
We're going to learn that even protections that were in place failed in Uvalde.
We don't know why yet, but we need to find that out.
But that's one piece of this.
The second piece of this is when you look at most of the shooters that have committed the most heinous of crimes, they have the same.
How many times have we read the stories five or six days after this, Joe?
Oh, oh, we were worried about him.
He was showing signs.
He was acting out.
We don't have a first alert system to find a growing number of teenagers who are in distress, young adults in distress who seem to be the most likely person to carry this out.
Buffalo and Uvalde, very similar circumstances.
Young people acting out, isolated, having mental illness or emotional issues.
Everybody says after the oh, we knew that guy was going to probably be trouble.
We have to catch those people before they get to the action moment.
And in the Virginia Tech findings, the key findings with both the Justice Department and the Commission did, knowing it said this is one of the most important lines.
Improved awareness and communication are the key to prevention, meaning awareness and communication about troubled students.
It's critical to get people with mental illness the services they need.
That's a direct quote from the report.
Those things have not been improved upon at all in 15 years since those recommendations were there.
We have the same shortfalls and failures with troubled youth that become the shooters or troubled young adults who become the shooters as we did then.
We've made no progress.
Those things could be done tomorrow, and there'll probably bipartisan support for them.
We're talking to John Solomon.
He is the editor-in-chief of justthenews.com and hosted the Just the News, Not Noise podcast.
John, I wonder, you know, when you see TV show, excuse me, what am I saying?
I'm so used to saying podcast.
Everybody has one these days.
It's a future TV show.
We're all worried about that, my friend.
Boy, but you ran a TV network.
That only makes sense.
But look, the president currently says that in order to pass a bill in the Senate, you know, a minimum of 10 Republican senators are needed to support the legislation, obviously, because of the filibuster.
I could see one or two or three Republicans being picked off, but the votes just aren't there, correct?
There aren't.
So it's a parrot statement to come out and do that press conference last night and propose a solution that has no chance of being enacted, right?
And that's the same bad debate we've been in since 1999.
The Democrats take this line.
The Republicans make the argument mental health, armed resources, and no progress is made, whether Republicans or Democrats are in control.
That's what frustrates the American people.
I don't know how any political leader in Washington can look at any parent who is a survivor and lost a child in Uvalde and say, we haven't been able to do anything for you for 20 straight years or 23 straight years.
At some point, there has to be a break in this cycle, or we're just going to live with burying a lot of caskets of young children every year unnecessarily.
How horrible.
John Solomon, we only have a couple more minutes, but I do want to get your thoughts on the upcoming midterms because I just look at this.
I try to look at it, you know me, as objectively as possible.
I know that 150 some odd days is an eternity to an election.
A lot of things can change.
But two big things happened in the last month.
One was that Roe v.
Wade decision being leaked out, and everybody says, well, that's going to be a game changer.
Democrats will run on that.
And I just kept looking at the numbers saying, no, no, no.
Gallup shows that this country is split exactly down the middle in terms of pro-life and pro-choice.
So that doesn't really favor one party or the other.
And then I see obviously what happened in Uvalde with the school shooting.
And again, you know, people are so divided on this that I think those two issues are basically awash and it doesn't so-called favor a party.
And I hate to talk in those terms.
But in the end, this is just going to come down to what it did for Carter in 1980, right?
Or it did for George H.W. Bush in 1992.
I could go down the list.
It comes down to inflation, inflation, inflation, correct?
Absolutely.
This is a pocketbook issue.
If you can't afford to fill up your gas tank or you have to make a choice between buying food for your children or putting gas in a tank, you're going to be voting your pocketbook.
If you look out and you can't find baby formula, meanwhile, the illegal migrants' children at the border in the CPB repositories have stackfuls of the formula available to them.
You're likely to vote your pocketbook and vote your conscience.
This is an economic election barring some unforeseen circumstance.
And I think one of the most difficult things for Democrats is every day Joe Biden addresses the economy.
He makes it worse.
When you say, as he did yesterday, I had no idea that closing down the largest baby factory, formula factory in the world would create a shortage.
People are going, what the heck?
I mean, come on now.
Or, hey, it's really not that bad.
This is a new economy we're building.
Don't worry about that $6 gas price you're paying.
That doesn't work.
Joe Biden is making the hole larger for Democrats.
And that's why you're seeing so many people retiring in the Democratic Party.
And you know they're not only retiring at the congressional level, the number of state legislators on the Democratic side pulling the plug and saying, I'm not running again, is a real sign that they see an economic election wave tsunami.
Oh, John, they didn't say what the heck.
There's another word that was probably inserted there.
It's very close enough.
Exactly.
You're right.
So, John, it's plug time.
So justthenews.com.
What can people get there that they can't get from the publications that they're used to going to as far as news and particularly an all-things Washington?
Yeah, listen, I think it's two things.
My brand of journalism has always been investigative accountability journalism.
We have a great story this morning about the Capitol Police IG has found that the police wrongly took a picture of a congressman's legislative thing, got in his office, took a picture.
It should have done that Fourth Amendment issue.
We do things like that all the time.
But here's the thing I'm most proud of.
In an era where people are prone to not trust the news media much anymore, we created a section called Dig In.
Every aspect of our reporters' notebook is alongside the story.
So if you read the story, I don't believe that.
Well, the documents, the video, the audio, the research links we did, we put that in the dig tool.
And that's our promise, which is we're going to let you make up your own mind.
We're going to write the story the way we think it should be written, but you can look at our raw materials and you don't have to take our word for it.
You can go in.
And that dig in tool has become iconic.
Our promise to our readers, and we now have 8 million readers a month.
We're very excited about that.
It's been a really fun journey to build this and try to do something to restore some transparency and credibility to an industry that you know because you've chronicled it so well is in a lot of distress.
The public doesn't trust the news media anymore.
Transparency.
This is a foreign concept.
Wow.
Good job, John Solomon.
His Twitter handle, by the way, is at J. Solomon Reports.
I just said a double take.
You have 867,000 followers?
My God, you crushed me, man.
But it may be a few more now.
Oh, my wife barred my toothbrush and got pregnant.
I know exactly what you're saying here.
Johnny, thanks so much, man.
Let's get together soon.
I love it.
Thanks, Joe.
All right.
Have a good weekend.
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